- 2nd semester

Objectives

General characterization

Code

711031082

Credits

6

Responsible teacher

Manuel João Matos

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Prerequisites

Bibliography

HOBBES, T. (1968), Leviathan, ed. C. B. Macpherson. London, Penguin Books.
KANT, I. (2011), Anthropologie du point de vue pragmatique, trad. M. Foucault. Paris, Vrin.
KANT, I. (2014), Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes, trad. P. Quintela. Lisboa, Edições 70.
4. ROUSSEAU, J.-J. (1964), Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes. Œuvres complètes, III, Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade.
5. ROUSSEAU, J.-J. (2004), Emílio ou da educação, trad. R. L. Ferreira. São Paulo, Martins Fontes.

Teaching method

The teaching methods include lectures and practical classes with the same academic weight.

Evaluation method

The evaluation consists of frequency (40%); work with oral defense in classroom (40%); continuous evaluation and participation in class (20%).

Subject matter

The foundations of Modern Anthropology
1. Hobbes and the foundations of modern anthropology.
2. Rousseau´s anthropology and the Sciences of Man.
3. Kant and the anthropology from the pragmatic point of view.
4. From Hobbes´s anthropology to Kant: continuity and rupture in the knowledge of Man.
5. From the theory of possessive individualism and the negative freedom to autonomy or positive freedom in Rousseau and Kant as major structural change of modern anthropology.

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